Current Events that Relate to History
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‘They’re Eating Pets’ – Another Example of US Politicians Smearing Haiti and Haitian Immigrants
Trump’s baseless claims about migrants in Ohio reflect a long history of prejudice against Haitians. In Washington, those falsehoods have driven policy.The Conversation -
Book ReviewHow Moderate Republicans Went Extinct
On Nelson Rockefeller and the disappearance of moderate Republicans from American politics.Public Seminar -
DebunkRead Another Book
The Power Broker leaves us ill-equipped to understand or confront the struggles that face the city today.Slate -
sourcedThe Women She Left Behind
Eleanor Roosevelt’s tacit support for a program that jailed sex workers suggests the limits of the elite-led reform efforts she championed.New York Review of Books -
RetrievalHow Prairie Philosophy Democratised Thought in 19th-century America
How two amateur schools pulled a generation of thinkers from the workers and teachers of the 19th-century American Midwest.Aeon -
Book ReviewThe Communist Party Helped Shape US History
A new book tells the story of American communism as an integral part of 20th-century US history, with Communists “as social critics and social change agents.”Jacobin -
exhibitThe Many Faces of Nativism
As this exhibit shows, anti-immigrant sentiment has been a throughline of American history.
From the HNN Archive
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The Forebears of JD Vance and the New Right
Revisiting the Agrarian-Distributists and their fabrication of an American past. -
Overexposed
What happened to privacy when Americans gained easy access to cameras in the Gilded Age? -
An Early Case of Impostor Syndrome
Why were so many medieval books laden with self-deprecation? Blame genre conventions. -
Books That Speak of Books
How a subgenre of murder mysteries plays with the way real history is written. -
Access Denied
When the British government opened its archives to historians — and started relying less on the past for its own business. -
Mastering the Art of Reading an Old Recipe
For every moment of historical significance, there is a figure — often hidden — who fed the figures we do remember.